He says they were with a third man who swam to safety and called for help at about 1:30 a.m. Friday after the canoe overturned 200 yards offshore near the Rodgers Point Boat Club in Hyde Park. That's on the river's east bank just north of Poughkeepsie.

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A state police helicopter and boat crews searched through the day, along with the Bayonne, N.J.-based Coast Guard cutter Hawser.